Derek Walcott Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
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Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
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I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
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I feel blessed that I was gifted.
